My name is Marc DiFrancia and I know a thing or two about transformation.
CEO & Founder, Creative Self-Mastery
By age ten, I was already drinking regularly and smoking cigarettes, and pot. By the end of that decade, I had already moved into psychedelics and opiates. My twenties consisted of several health issues, crippling pain (good thing I preferred opiates) severely co-dependent relationships that were both physically and emotionally abusive, poverty, and bankruptcy. My thirties saw me severely addicted to opiates from sciatic nerve damage and the untreatable, excruciating pain that goes with it. I was in trouble with the law, broke financially and spiritually, and suffered the worst “luck” my friends and family could ever witness. My forties started off with a messy break-up, and a second bankruptcy that cost me everything I had left. I experienced abject poverty, often resorting to local fruit trees for food (I lived in Florida at the time). The pain had robbed me of my ability to leave my home and the drugs had robbed me of my mind. The death of the only person who had ever loved me functionally created unbearable emotional pain and I was preparing to end my life. But transformation was brewing. I had plenty of time to read while I was confined to my couch, and I chose, books on spiritual practices (Celtic, Toltec, Huna to name a few) as well as books on personal development, self-help and brain science. I didn’t know it at the time, but the decision NOT to kill myself would trigger a coalescence of the information I had been devouring. The decision to live and ultimately to transform my life was the catalyst for the emergence of a system that has transformed my life and the lives of those who have employed it.
The system relies on a brutally honest assessment of who you are and how you show up in life, coupled with a vivid vision of where you’d like to be. We employ intuition to get us from where we are to where we want to be…Simple…But not easy…True transformation takes hard work and determination, but for the clients that show up willing to work toward it consciously and without giving up, true transformation is our guarantee.
Several years ago, I created my second company ‘Creative Self Mastery’. In addition to housing our Inner Circle membership (a group of conscious creators that meet regularly under my supervision to share ideas, learn self-mastery methods, and support each other in their growth and personal development), Creative Self Mastery also sponsors our Coaching Certification program, as well as our group coaching modules, workshops, webinars and our Being the Pace Car podcast series. I personally work with every coach trainee for approximately ten hours every week over the course of two years to ensure that every CSM coach is held in a powerful educational structure that ensures their growth, power, and performance as coaches and people. I have tremendous faith in the CSM coaches. Not only do they understand the difference between growth and transformation, that have incredible individual skills that empower their clients to bring that transformation to every aspect of their lives.
-Marc DiFrancia
Meet The Coaches
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Stanley Fisher
Executive Coach & Facilitator
One day, I woke up and I wanted my life to change. I had had enough and I knew I was the problem. I realized I was the common denominator to all of the conflicts that I had ever felt. I woke up that day and declared I would never experience another failed relationship, dead-end job, loneliness, poverty, or poor health ever again. If it did happen again it’s because it was out of my control and not because I didn't do my best. I walked away from a life that did not serve me to start a new one.
The journey led me to Marc Di Francia where I have had the pleasure and pain of learning more about myself through his Creative Self-Mastery Education and now I have the pleasure of being one of his coaches.
I offer an engaging, no-nonsense approach coupled with fun and engaging techniques that provide my clients with powerful insights into human behavior and the understanding of functional and dysfunctional creation. My clients over the last decade range from newbies to seasoned pros in their fields wanting to elevate their brands or businesses.
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Meehir Patel
Co-Founder, Executive Coach & Facilitator
My journey started in 2011 with a rude awakening that shifted my life into depression, anxiety, and despair, I decided that I would never again be at the mercy of my own ego, nor the denial and self-neglect that led to this crisis situation in the first place.
In 2016, I met Marc DiFrancia, and what started as a humble conversation around a campfire in Mozambique, turned into a relationship of mutual love and respect. Shortly thereafter, Marc invited me to join him on a grand adventure, a greater vision, to share this work and to raise the consciousness of the planet. I began a coaching apprenticeship that created a vow of true service that has defined what it means to live and breathe the work that is Creative Self Mastery. I cite this as one of the best decisions of my life. I embarked on a journey under Marc's powerful guidance, potent wisdom, and deeply loving stewardship to become one of CSM's most prominent coaches and to carry the torch of Creative Self Mastery wherever I go.
Working with Marc, I am able to wield my own power in a way that I never thought possible. I now understand that I can have any experience that I want, as long as I don’t give up! Whether I want better relationships, business success, or a deeper connection to life and existence, CSM continues to take me on a magical journey of choosing and committing to my heart’s deepest desires.
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Nicky Peters
Coach & Facilitator
I believe that life is to be fully lived and for that to happen we need to step off the conventional path and have the courage to tread our own. I’ve lived in France for the past ten years and I love looking at the life I have created knowing that it’s an authentic expression of me.I started my coaching journey when I couldn’t figure out how to put my ambition into action. Frustrated by my inability to make progress and defeated in my pursuit of a gratifying design career, I sought out a mentor in Marc DiFrancia. At that time, I knew I needed a fresh perspective, someone to help me push past my dysfunctional behaviour patterns to start living and thinking how I wanted.
Since this transformative period, I have discovered a passion for the subconscious and teaching others ways to harness the power of their own. I now give seminars to business graduates looking for that mentor, as once I did, to help them make their dreams and projects a reality. Little did I know at the start of my career, that I would later discover a playfulness and creativity in none other than coaching, NLP and hypnosis.
I see clients on a 1:1 basis to help them resolve psychological issues such as anxiety and reduce unhelpful thinking while getting them excited about life again. I love teaching CSM principles for the profound effect they have on those willing to change and commit to relearning their world with a different mindset.
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Gabriella Magic
Coach & Facilitator
About my background: I have qualifications in Nutrition and Food Science,Naturopathic medicine, Sound Healing, Massage Therapy and Layla Martin’s Love,Sex and Relationship coaching program.
In my corporate job I use intuition in every aspect of the business starting from hiring to leading a team of 18.
As a coach I like to focus on interpersonal relationships and leading the clients to achieve their highest potential in every aspect of their life. -
Tiffany Bunch
Coach & Facilitator
It’s said that the longest journey we take is from our head to our heart. Certainly that was the case for me. I spent a lot of my time, energy, and resources trying to figure out my life, and I was working really hard at doing that without a lot to show for it. I was also painfully aware of how my history and trauma were influencing my present, and, looking at the future, all I could see were insurmountable problems. To put it simply, I was stuck in the victim mindset, rarely accessing my intuitive heart because my thinking brain was running the show.
When I started to take responsibility for myself and the situations I create, I could see the path to a heart based life. I’m not a victim, because the truth is that there is so much to life that is within my influence. Since choosing to operate from my heart, I can genuinely see what’s working, I look at things and myself with curiosity over judgement, and I expend WAY less energy because “the work” is only as difficult as I make it.
Creative Self-Mastery has been the catalyst for my transformation because Marc and the Team are dedicated to crafting a heart based container through which I hold myself to the standard of knowing I am powerful enough to create what I commit to creating AND to meet myself exactly where I’m at with compassion and curiosity. I love being a part of creating this same container as a coach with the CSM Team.
If you’re looking to make the journey from head to heart space, reach out to us today!
“Transformation…There are a lot of coaches out there who will give you some tools that make your life better. They promise ‘Transformation’ but in reality, they do not have the skills to get you to die to the aspects of your identity that keep you from living to your full potential.
Other coaches simply make your life better than how it was by getting you to make small changes that resolve the tension in your life. Useful, but not permanent and not complete.”
— Marc DiFrancia
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“In the past, I would often stress about things I felt I could not control, but I have learned I can and have put that stress to rest. It still comes up on occasion but I have a coach that I can turn to every week to help me deal with anything and everything.”
Marie - Victoria, British Columbia